Isao Kota

Beginning with the grounded view of bare feet walking through shallow surf, the film then seizes and, in successively cumulative layers adds frames...

I once had a vivid feeling, basking in the sunlight in a field listening to the murmuring of melting snow, that I was surrounded by sensations,...

I wondered what it would feel like to see another image at the moment the bubble bursts. I wondered if there was a crucial difference between...

If there are many photos taken at different times and places, and the same person appears in each photo, then by taking stop-motion pictures of those...

It depicts a day in a somewhat poor apartment life, where I eat and edit 8mm film. I was criticized for the terrible way I washed rice, but anyway, I...

The light from the projector lens was projected through a sheet of ice, and the 8mm film was then immersed in a solution of diluted bleach and...

The first half of the film is about the silent sound of the cicadas penetrating the rocks. The overall view is of a horizontal rotation as you ascend...

The image captured by moving the camera left and right moves left and right on the screen. The screen was then re-shot by moving the camera left and...

We filmed a cheetah roaming around at Tama Zoo. We projected that footage and followed the cheetah's movements on the screen with a camera. The...

The 1976 version is the final version, but it is a reworking, with more nesting, of the version made and screened in 1974. It is the final version...

In order to see that a sequence of photographs is a film, I made various experiments within a single uninterrupted film. This work was the starting...

It was a moment in the apartment I lived in at the time. The breeze was coming in through the window every now and then. I shot the footage on 8mm...

I took this photo in Uraga. I was carrying a tripod with an 8mm camera on it, so it was a selfie from behind. The tripod is always in the frame, so...

A movie film shot continuously is a series of action shots, one frame at a time. This is because there is a continuation of movement between the...

Human eye movements are similar to the way pigeons and chickens shake their heads. I wanted to capture that restlessness in a video. I held an 8mm...

These are Yamashita Park and Yokohama sightseeing boats in 1976. In the live action section, I expressed the relationship between the landscape and...